there’s a kid who had a big hallucination

and if i show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight
and if i open my heart to you
and show you my weak side
what would you do?

he was talking the whole time the music played. over his voice i could make out the lyrics. the same song i’d heard perhaps a million times before, and fell in love with the meaning long ago.

not that i wasnt listening. no i pay attention to what he says. its just so friggin hard when youve just sent Señor THC through your blood stream. so i half listen, if you will. i knew his words, but could also make out the conversation Roger Waters was sharing with me.

thought i oughta bare my naked feelings
thought i oughta tear the curtain down
i held the blade in trembling hands
prepared to make it but,
just then the phone rang
i never had the nerve to make the final cut…